Top Stories: The UN conference on climate in Copenhagen is in danger of folding through tensions and divisions. Big News Network.com Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:55:34 -0500A Catholic Church in Sri Lanka has been attacked, with suspicions falling on Buddhist extremists. Big News Network.com Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:28:21 -0500Former US Vice President Dick Cheney has warned that 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s trial in New York City will give make him an extremist hero like Osama bin Laden. ANI Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:15:13 -0500Thousands of Indonesians have protested about corruption in cities across Indonesia. Big News Network.com Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:11:15 -0500Two boy’s schools have been blown up by the Taliban in Bara town, 20 kilometres south of provincial capital Peshawar. Big News Network.com Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:56:06 -0500Amnesty International has condemned an execution in Saudi Arabia that saw a 22-year-old man beheaded and then crucified. Big News Network.com Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:51:19 -0500The top US commander in Afghanistan has told members of the US Congress that Osama Bin Laden will have to be captured or killed if the allied forces are to defeat al-Qaeda. Big News Network.com Wed, 09 Dec 2009 02:48:28 -0500Auhorities in Missouri have said a young girl may have been slain because the girl next door... Big News Network.com Wed, 09 Dec 2009 01:56:56 -0500Israeli Nobel Prize laureate Prof. Ada Yonath has been chosen to sit next to Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf at a ceremonial dinner after the ceremony in Stockholm on Thursday. Jerusalem Post Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:54:09 -0500If Israel were to violate Turkish airspace in order to conduct reconnaissance operations on Iran, Ankara's reaction will resemble an "earthquake," Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in a... Jerusalem Post Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:54:09 -0500WASHINGTON: The United States and Russia said they were closing in on a successor arms reduction treaty that would further slash their nuclear arsenals and put their relations on a more solid footing.... Channel News Asia Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:47:34 -0500TEGUCIGALPA: A Mexican plane was en route to Honduras late Wednesday to collect ousted president Manuel Zelaya, the head of the Honduran aviation authority said, indicating a possible breakthrough in ... Channel News Asia Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:47:32 -0500Facing budget cuts, a Northern Calif. city decided to forgo an expensive freshly cut, full-bodied Christmas tree this year for a lopsided, brownish one already growing in the city plaza. USA Today Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:41:05 -0500American Civil Liberties Union has lost a quarter of its yearly donations after a major donor cut off $19 million in annual donations because of economic difficulties. USA Today Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:41:04 -0500NEW YORK - John Wall has played nine games for Kentucky. His latest was his best — and the end of this one showed the freshman guard is as good as advertised. MSNBC Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:40:11 -0500FORT COLLINS, Colorado - Colorado State University researchers are predicting a more active Atlantic hurricane season next year, with six to eight hurricanes, at least three of them major. MSNBC Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:40:08 -0500In addition to the charges related to the deaths of the 11 women whose remains were found in October and November, Sowell is also charged with assaulting three other women and raping two of them, auth... CNN Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:38:48 -0500LOS ANGELES - California has more chihuahuas than it can handle, and it has Hollywood to blame. There are so many chihuahuas at shelters in Oakland, they have started shipping the dogs out of sta... C News Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:38:19 -0500CLEVELAND - A registered sex offender charged with killing 11 women and hiding their remains in and around his Cleveland home agreed Wednesday to let police fence off the house with barbed wire to pre... C News Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:38:18 -0500SEOUL, South Korea - Swine flu has struck isolated North Korea, its government acknowledged, although it was unclear whether there were any fatalities from the virus that has been circling the globe f... C News Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:38:18 -0500NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. - John Allen Ditullio is a walking billboard for the neo-Nazi movement: a large 15-centimetre swastika tattooed under his right ear, barbed wire inked down the right side of his ... C News Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:38:17 -0500SYDNEY, Australia - More than 120 wildfires are burning in one Australian state, and forecasters warn of severe fire danger in parts of another as temperatures and winds increase across parts of south... C News Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:38:17 -0500KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Police arrested a former top port executive and two other suspects Thursday in an investigation into one of Malaysia's biggest financial scandals. The arrests were the fi... C News Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:38:17 -0500India's home minister has announced that the process of forming a separate state in part of southern Andhra Pradesh state will begin soon. P Chidambaram's announcement came in response to protests by ... BBC Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:35:49 -0500.brabys a { font-size: 8pt; } /* sport newsletter box */ #sports_nl { background: url(/images/sports_nl_bg.png) no-repeat; height: 82px; margin: 10px 0 10px 5px; overflow: hidden; width: 250p... IOL Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:29:25 -0500WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama will confront the Afghan war "head-on" when he accepts the Nobel Peace Prize on Thursday and address criticism he does not deserve it so early in his... Reuters Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:27:51 -0500QUEENSLAND Governor Penny Wensley has used the state's 150th birthday celebrations to call for a closer focus on reconciliation. The Australian Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:17:49 -0500A REGIONAL Victorian fruiterer who was feared as a vicious mobster for years of "evil, cruel and cowardly" blackmail and extortion has been jailed for 11 years and six months. The Australian Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:17:48 -0500COMEDIAN Dave Grant, who has been missing since early this morning, was disoriented and talking incoherently when he left his Melbourne home. The Australian Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:17:46 -0500Economists had expected unemployment to rise to 5.9 per cent.IG Markets analyst Cameron Peacock said the Australian bourse had moved into positive territory after the surprisingly good employment data... The Australian Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:17:45 -0500FUNDAMENTALS for the global dairy industry should gradually improve through 2010, before a more robust market emerges from 2011, according to an analysis issued today by Rabobank Australia. The Australian Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:17:44 -0500IF Metal Storm is "annoyed" at the 11th delay today of the first tranche of a $US35 million rescue package from Assure Fast Holdings, it must be fuming at the further damage wreaked on an al... The Australian Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:17:43 -0500TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) -- Honduras' interim government said Wednesday night it has authorized ousted President Manuel Zelaya to leave the country and go to Mexico, and a Mexican official confirmed... New York Post Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:53:18 -0500SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- The Tiger Woods sex scandal has been a boon for online publications, even though it hasn't generated the same amount of Internet traffic as Michael Jackson's death or Presiden... New York Post Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:53:17 -0500NEW YORK (AP) -- Freshman John Wall scored a season-high 25 points, including 12 of Kentucky's last 15 in the game, and the fourth-ranked Wildcats beat No. 14 Connecticut 64-61 on Wednesday night in t... New York Post Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:53:15 -0500On Wednesday night, 24 hours after Defense Minister Ehud Barak had given Rabbi Eliezer Melamed a 48-hour deadline to come discuss his stand on insubordination in the IDF, the head of the Har Bracha Ye... Jerusalem Post Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:24:04 -0500Iran plans to "greatly reduce" its cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency if the UN Security Council decides to place further sanctions on the Islamic Republic, an Iranian lawmaker sa... Jerusalem Post Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:24:03 -0500Sephardi Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar came to the defense of Justice Minister Yaacov Neeman on Wednesday night, calling the attack this week on the minister "the hypocrisy of democracy."... Jerusalem Post Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:24:02 -0500CHICAGO: A Pakistani-American pleaded not guilty to helping plan the deadly 2008 Mumbai attacks and plotting to attack a Danish newspaper which published cartoons of the prophet Mohammed. David Colema... Channel News Asia Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:17:43 -0500"Someone knows something," Margarite Owens says of her 78-year-old father, Jessie Edwards, who disappeared two years ago. A bill in Congress seeks to combine databases to help locate missing persons. USA Today Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:11:22 -0500Although improved survival rates are the goal of faster patient delivery, field commanders are still calculating whether quicker times have saved lives, says Marine Corps Lt. Col. Joseph Kloppel, a sp... USA Today Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:11:21 -0500President Obama ’s plan to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan, but many are skeptical that the United States can count on Afghanistan as a partner in the fight or that the escalation would reduc... MSNBC Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:10:25 -0500 Dec. 9: A breakthrough stem cell procedure could soon help cure thousands of adults with sickle cell and other inherited blood disorders. NBC's Robert Bazell reports. MSNBC Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:10:24 -0500WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - Two victims of the wrong-way crash that killed eight people on a New York highway suffered terror and pain before they died, a lawsuit claims. MSNBC Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:10:22 -0500Madrid, Spain (CNN) -- A U.S.-built, unmanned mini-submarine on an ocean research mission has successfully crossed the North Atlantic by gliding on underwater currents, U.S. officials said Wednesday i... CNN Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:09:03 -0500The head of the Philippine Human Rights Commission says martial law should not have been imposed in the province that witnessed a recent political massacre.The commissioner, Leila de Lima, said the ma... BBC Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:05:40 -0500The Oxford rugby team, above, will play Cambridge in front of over 30,000 fans at Twickenham, the spiritual home of English rugby. International Herald Tribune Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:01:42 -0500A WITNESS in the case of an alleged murder of a chef has told a court he suggested the accused use a hotel courtesy bus to transport the body. The Australian Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:46:42 -0500AUSTRALIAN scientists can soon resume their research into the controversial field of animal to human transplants, because the nation's five-year moratorium will be allowed to lapse. The Australian Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:46:41 -0500THE federal government says it will continue to assess foreign investment proposals on a case-by-case basis despite criticism that its policy is unclear and confusing to foreigners. The Australian Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:46:41 -0500METCASH has thrown down the gauntlet to rival grocer Woolworths after it today agreed to pay $55 million for a 50.1 per cent stake in hardware retailer Mitre 10. The Australian Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:46:40 -0500Mark of strength: As full-time employment rose by 30,800 jobs, economists forecast that Australia's jobless rate would peak at 6 per cent in 2010. The Australian Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:46:38 -0500WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama as well as Democratic liberals and moderates all found something to like Wednesday in an emerging compromise to expand the role of government in the nation's ... New York Post Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:23:12 -0500DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- A gigantic storm dumped more than a foot of snow across much of the Midwest and New England as it marched eastward Wednesday, creating blizzard conditions, burying cars under ... New York Post Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:23:11 -0500WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Palestinian shopkeeper and father portrayed as a terrorist in the movie "Bruno" is suing film star Sacha Baron Cohen, David Letterman and others for libel and slander. New York Post Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:23:09 -0500INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- The winter meetings heated up even more Wednesday, with Milwaukee landing pitchers Randy Wolf and LaTroy Hawkins, Baltimore acquiring Kevin Millwood in a trade with Texas and the ... New York Post Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:23:08 -0500News ), according to media reports on Wednesday. The two companies have reportedly struck a deal, which is pending regulatory approval and is expected to close this month.RBS put the Asian assets up f... RTT News Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:54:07 -0500(RTTNews) - In the continuing management shake-up at Detroit-based car maker General Motors Co., it Wednesday named James Campbell as the new general manager of its Chevrolet brand, effective immediat... RTT News Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:54:05 -0500As thousands of people protested in Jerusalem Wednesday night against the settlement moratorium, the Prime Minister's Office briefed reporters on its new map of "priority areas" that includes dozens o... Jerusalem Post Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:48:57 -0500Human rights violations in Iran are reportedly "the worst in 20 years," according to a new Amnesty International report on the aftermath of June's presidential elections. Jerusalem Post Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:48:55 -0500WASHINGTON: US lawmakers voted Wednesday to compel the uninvited couple who snuck through White House security to attend a state dinner in honour of India to face questioning over the incident. The Ho... Channel News Asia Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:42:43 -0500MELBOURNE - A sleep-deprived truck driver who ploughed into stopped traffic on a Melbourne freeway, killing a man, has been jailed for three years. Shayne Hodge, 42, drove his prime mover into a line... New Zealand Herald Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:38:14 -0500The bills would change what insurance companies may consider about a person when they set the price of a policy. For instance, insurers could no longer charge more if a policyholder has a pre-existing... USA Today Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:36:19 -0500Frigid temperatures in single digits and winds of up to 45 mph were expected to create new whiteout conditions and deep snowdrifts across the Midwest, said meteorologist Bruce Sullivan of the... USA Today Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:36:17 -0500President Barack Obama waves as he arrives to announce nearly $600 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act awards to support major construction and renovation projects at 85 community health... MSNBC Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:35:15 -0500CEO Steve Jobs and Apple don't care what their "community" of customers think. They just keep rolling out what the people want — even before the people know it. MSNBC Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:35:08 -0500Lawmakers on the House Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday approved the issuance of subpoenas to compel the attention-hungry couple to answer questions about the Nov. 24 incident. MSNBC Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:35:06 -0500Pro-democracy activists hold pictures of Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, who was arrested after co-writing a manifesto urging civil rights and political reforms, outside the U.S. Consulate General in Ho... MSNBC Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:35:05 -0500NEW YORK - The e-book reading device is the gadget gift of the season. Both Sony and Barnes & Noble have sold out of their new models, and new buyers will have to wait until January for delivery. ... MSNBC Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:35:03 -0500While more details surface about Tiger Woods's reported dalliances, the golf great's Swedish-born wife, Elin Nordegren, has yet to speak about the scandal or give any hint of her distress – beyond a... MSNBC Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:35:01 -0500(CNN) -- Deposed Honduran President Jose Manuel Zelaya, who has been holed up in the Brazilian embassy in the Honduran capital since September 21, has asked the de facto government for safe conduct to... CNN Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:33:10 -0500There are reports that ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya is about to leave for exile in Mexico but it is unclear if and when he will go.Sources close to Mr Zelaya indicated he would leave Brazil... BBC Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:29:16 -0500British PM Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy have issued a joint call for urgent global reform of financial markets.Writing in the Wall Street Journal, they say a one-off tax on bank b... BBC Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:29:14 -0500He also cautioned the US president against relying too much on his advisers. The exiled Tibetan leader won the Nobel prize 20 years ago for his peaceful opposition to Chinese rule in his country. Sky News Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:29:07 -0500Now a sprawling urban area of 35m people, Mumbai is straining. The city, like India is growing. The country adds 14m people to its population each year, spiraling by the end of the century to be the... Sky News Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:29:05 -0500Pakistan on Wednesday in a police raid on a house linked to a militant group, American and Pakistani officials said. One of the men had left behind an 11-minute video calling for the defense of Muslim... International Herald Tribune Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:26:29 -0500WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Wednesday praised a Senate compromise on a public insurance option, and Senate Democrats said the proposals moved them one step closer to passage of a ... Reuters Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:20:59 -0500WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives approved a procedural rule on Wednesday that cleared the way for floor debate to begin on legislation that would give the government broad new ... Reuters Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:20:58 -0500WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House of Representatives began preliminary debate on sweeping legislation to give the government new powers over large financial firms and tighten bank and market regulation... Reuters Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:20:57 -0500U.S. Expects to Lose $200B Less on TARP (AP) Bank of America Corp. said Wednesday it has repaid the entire $45 billion it owed U.S. taxpayers as part of the Troubled Asset Relief Program. Bank of A... CBS News Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:19:14 -0500Obama College Loan Plan Is Controversial (AP) The Pell Grant program for needy college students is facing a massive shortfall as the country's bleak job market drives people back to school. An admi... CBS News Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:19:12 -0500FIREFIGHTERS are battling to contain a fire advancing on the town of Bundarra, near Armidale in northern NSW, with fears that strengthening winds could create an emergency situation. The Australian Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:12:49 -0500A 20-year-old man from Hillside handed himself in to police shortly after 11am (AEDT) today.He is helping police with their inquiries into the death of Andrew Dowd, 48, who was bashed to death yesterd... The Australian Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:12:47 -0500FIVE men and four teenage boys have been committed to stand trial for the murder of rugby league star Johnathan Thurston's uncle. The Australian Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:12:39 -0500CHINA'S envoy to the world climate change talks in Copenhagen has criticised rich countries for failing to fulfil commitments to curb carbon emissions and provide aid to developing nations. The Australian Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:12:37 -0500THE dollar has appreciated to a level well above its long run average as conditions in foreign exchange markets normalise and the effects of the global financial crisis fade, the central bank says. The Australian Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:12:35 -0500THE dollar was higher at noon after a stronger-than-expected jobs report heightened expectations of further interest rate rises by the Reserve Bank next year. The Australian Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:12:34 -0500A NOVEMBER labour force report that was stronger than expected pulled the Australian sharemarket out of the doldrums and into positive territory early this afternoon. The Australian Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:12:33 -0500In October Tox won a $30 million-a-year contract with Toll Energy to manage waste from the construction phase of the Gorgon project base on the eco-sensitive Barrow Island.But has the well-loved stock... The Australian Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:12:31 -0500Plus, some lingering Allen Iverson effect was expected: a little boost, that je ne sais quoi he brings. But tonight, the tangible energy expected to fill the Wachovia Center - only one game after Ive... Philadelphia Daily News Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:10:40 -0500Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie termed Andy Reid, "in every way, the epitome of what you're looking for," during a news conference to announce that Reid has agreed to a 3-year extension that will... Philadelphia Daily News Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:10:35 -0500"There's no question you've got to kill or capture those bad guys that are not reconcilable," Gen. David Petraeus, the chief of U.S. Central Command, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. "And ... New York Post Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:47:20 -0500DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- A gigantic storm dumped more than a foot of snow across much of the Midwest and New England as it marched eastward Wednesday, creating blizzard conditions, burying cars under ... New York Post Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:47:20 -0500WASHINGTON (AP) -- Five young American Muslims captured in Pakistan are under investigation for possible links to terrorism after their families found a disturbing farewell video the missing men left ... New York Post Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:47:19 -0500WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House voted Wednesday to extend $31 billion in popular tax breaks, including an income tax deduction for sales and property taxes, to be financed with a tax increase on investme... New York Post Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:47:17 -0500COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford dodged impeachment Wednesday but was scolded by legislators for his travels to see a mistress in Argentina and his misuse of state planes. New York Post Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:47:16 -0500BAGHDAD (AP) -- Iraq's Western-backed government - facing intense pressure to address security lapses after suicide bombings killed 127 people in the capital - ordered a shake-up Wednesday in the coun... 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